Exhibits
Fall 2009 Invitational Exhibit
VIVA Art Center, 13261 Moorpark Street, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Wednesday, October 14 – Saturday, October 31, 2009
“Reconstruction”, the Fall 2009 Juried show of Collage Artists of America, included members of CAA and other invited member groups of VIVA Art Center (Women Painters West, Valley Arists Guild, and Valley Watercolor Society, along with invited groups San Fernando Valley Art Club and Artist Co-op 7) are represented in the show.
Images of all the winning entries are posted on VIVA's show page.
Photos from the Reception are posted on the CAA Reconstruction Facebook page.
Congratulations to Donna Geist Buch, who won 1st Place for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (pictured left).
The Juror for this show was John Greco, Professor of Art, Santa Monica College. Primarily a printmaker, John has exhibited widely both here and abroad and is represented in many public and private collections. In judging a work of art he looks for inventiveness, craftsmanship, and harmonies in composition and design.
Spring 2009 – “E-COLLAGE-ICAL”
May 20 – June 6, 2009 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA.
Award Winners
1st Place:
John Selleck, Man on Vacation (pictured)- 2nd Place: Darlene Mellein, Iris Thinks Her Color’s Red
- 3rd Place: Mathilde Lombard, Encroaching Darkness – Emerging Light
- 4th Place: Marjorie Sarnat, Ancient Secrets
- 5th Place: Rachelle Mark, Network
- Honorable Mentions:
Susanne Belcher, A Distant View;
Sophia Tise, The Grey Sea and the Long Black Land;
Crystal Michaelson, What Would Al Gore Do?
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Katherine Chang Liu, NWS, renowned painter, teacher and curator.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Photos from the Reception are posted on the CAA E-COLLAGE-ICAL Facebook page.
Winter 2008 Exhibition
November 19 – December 6, 2008 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Mary Guzman – "Among Good Company" (right)
- 2nd Place: Sandy Rooney – "Artful Woman"
- 3rd Place: Sandra Klein – "Her Own Worst Enemy"
- Cheap Joes Merchandise Award: Lorraine Strieby – "Angel Walking"
- Carter Sexton Merchandise Award: Sharon Brooks – “Marley's Nirvana"
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Rosamond Felson, who has directed the Rosamond Felson Gallery in Santa Monica since 1967.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Summer 2008 Exhibition
June 4–21, 2008 – VIVA Art Center
1st Place: Dallas Chase – “Surfer's Paradise”
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Dallas Chase
- 2nd Place: Marilyn Landau
- 3rd Place: Phyllis Doyon
- Merchandise Award: Lois Ramirez
- Continental Art Supplies Merchandise Award: Linda Carlson
- Continental Art Supplies Merchandise Award: Launa Romoff
The Juror of Selection and Awards was Anthony Askew, Professor of Art, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
New Year Show 2008
January 2 – 24, 2008 – Creative Arts Center Gallery, Burbank, CA 91506
1st Place: Shari Beaubien – “A Place Called Home”
Click here for images of all the winning entries
Fall 2007 Exhibition
October 10 – 27, 2007 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Nancy Goodman Lawrence (pictured)
- 2nd Place: Jaami A-K Abdul-Samad
- 3rd Place: Dallas Chase
- Merwin Altfeld Memorial Award: Beverly Grossman
- Continental Art Supplies Award: Joan Foster
- Continental Art Supplies Award: J. Natasha Kostan
- Image-Ination Award: Lois Ramirez
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Michael Zakian, Ph.D., Director of the Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Spring 2007 – “Mixing Materials and Personalities”
March 7 – 24, 2007 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Baby Smith (pictured)
- 2nd Place: Terri Balady
- 3rd Place: Norma Klein
- Ruth Sklar Continuing Award: Nancy Goodman Lawrence
- Merchandise Award: Nancy Roberts
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Juror Franklyn Liegel, artist/educator at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Fall 2006 – “Ripped & Torn”
November 15 – December 2, 2006 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Mathilde Lombard (pictured)
- 2nd Place: Lorraine Strieby
- 3rd Place: Darlene Mellein
- Ruth Sklar Continuing Award: Susie Brown
- Merchandise Award: Ellen Grim
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Kent Twitchell. Kent is one of America's foremost muralists and a Los Angeles artistic treasure. His work graces the walls and freeways of our city as well as other locations around the country.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Juried Open 2006 Exhibition
March 1–25, 2006 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Barbara Baker McIntyre (pictured)
- 2nd Place: Diane Stovall
- 3rd Place: Cynthia Paige Aaron
- 4th Place: Eva Kolosvary Stupler
- 5th Place: Carolann Waterson
6th Place: Tom Kurthy - Honorary mentions: Rebecca Andrews, Susan Gesundheit, Katie Mason, Keith Ullrich
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was George Herms, whose work was exhibited in the group show The Art of Assemblage at MOMA and in Fifty California Artists at the Whitney, in New York.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Fall 2005 Exhibit
September 2005 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st place: Martha Blanchard
- 2nd place: Chris Meyer
- 3rd place: Nancy Roberts
- Ruth Sklar Memorial Award: Carolann Watterson
- Merchandise award winners: Avinger Nelson, Delores Berg, John Selleck and Carole Gillan